The tool is suspended to access the sites of Social Security and taxes due to cases of fraud.
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The FranceConnect online identification tool, a device allowing connect to different administrative sites, is suspended for certain services due to cases of fraud. Connection to the Social Security website, ameli.fr, through this “is temporarily suspended” since August 12, a spokesman for the National Health Insurance Fund told AFP on Thursday, September 1. “The ameli account remains naturally accessible with its Social Security number and password”he specified.
“We confirm that we have suspended access to the private space on impots.gouv via FranceConnect since August 4”also told AFP a spokesman for the Directorate General of Public Finance. “Access is normally from the tax home pagets.gouv”with the site-specific username and password.
The Interministerial IT Department (Dinum), project manager of FranceConnect which depends on Matignon, has recognized that due to cases of fraud observed for a few months, “a gradual shift” from FranceConnect to “more secure identification services” was in progress for “the most sensitive procedures, and in particular those allowing access to financial payments”.
“In practice, ill-intentioned individuals contact users to extort their Ameli or impots.gouv.fr usernames and passwords and then use them to access funding such as those of Mon Compte Formation” via FranceConnect, she explained. “During the summer, an intensification of these frauds was observed with a few hundred reports per month”she continued.